Chile accuses volunteer firefighter and ex-forestry official with causing huge fire that killed 137 - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper

A Chilean judge on Saturday ordered a volunteer firefighter and a former forestry official detained for allegedly planning and causing a mammoth forest fire in the Valparaiso region that caused 137 deaths and made 16,000 people homeless in February. The court in Valparaiso ruled the two men, who were arrested Friday, could be held for…

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